单词	shell game
释义	shell gameˈshell game noun [countable] American English Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The new program to help science students is just a shell game, as an older program that helps more students is being cut. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS It was a curious shell game in which each side thought it had the upper hand. Life in the Lubetkin family was a perpetual shell game. The shell game which Dad had instigated so long ago had impoverished all three of us. The middle class will soon enough tumble to the fact that it is the sucker in Forbes's shell game. a dishonest method of doing something, in which you pretend to be doing one thing when you are really doing another:  Critics called the proposal a shell game.
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